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Message 1.Â
Posted by chris (U14479141) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011
good morning to all,well we have had 3 days of really strong winds here in the N/E thankfully not too much damage has been done to my veg plants,my plastic greenhouses from Wilkinsons have been buffeted from here to next week but the lashings that i tied them down with seem to have done their job although i had to take everything off the shelves,looking around the veg patch it looks as though ive been very lucky only lost 1 potato plant,it would be interesting to hear from other gardeners how they have faired over the last few days of very inclement weather hopefully you have faired as well as myself,kind regards Chris
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Message 2
Posted by martingodliman (U13761957) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011
Some of my courgettes and tomatoes are bit damaged by stuff falling on them (crudely propped up plastic sheeting to protect them from overnight low temperatures) and I brought in some tomatoes in pots for a couple of days, but I ha vent lost anything.
The wisteria trailing up my workshop (garage is now sprawling across the lawn again an annual event....I'll tie it back tomorrow when the wind dies down. -
Message 3
Posted by kate1123 (U14824475) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011
It has been so gusty here that the felting on the shed roof has come off. Most of my plants look very dry but no broken stems yet.
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Message 4
Posted by zoomer44 (U14019069) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011
My bag grown spuds were being blown over almost double at the weekend so staked them with cane and twine, no lasting damage, a few leaves have snapped but to be honest I damage more leaves watering with the hose.
A couple of lilly pots blew over too and afew flower buds have snapped off but again no lasting damage when they bloom they may look alittle lobsided but these can always be cut and no doubt will look fine in a vase.
All my pots are now wedged together with heavier one's on the outside. -
Message 5
Posted by wendy (U14838922) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011
I like in the north west and the wind is real strong, lost afew plants nothing major thank godness just afew herbs and afew other little things. think i'am lucky.
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Message 6
Posted by northwards (U14324094) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011
I've no idea how it happened but I went out this morning to find that a lot of young cabbage plants had been blown out of their trays. Spent half an hour trying to find them all blown under piles of pots
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Message 7
Posted by Rainjustlearning (U12861332) on Tuesday, 24th May 2011
I like you Chris have 2 of the plastic GH's from wilkos and they are roped to the wall but I have a cloche GH that wasn't so yesterday it did a "Dorothy" and flew into next doors, I have it back now and it's done it;s job for this year, but I also had a wall bracket pulled off the wall complete with screws rawl plugs and the basket, fortunately it landed in a very large tub with grasses in so soft landing, also hanging solar lights took flight and some of the stake type ones had the tops blown off, fruit trees and roses are fine.
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Message 8
Posted by juststartingoff (U11189730) on Wednesday, 25th May 2011
I have noticed that some of my potatoes are looking withered with black edges - could this be the strong winds? Some stems have snapped. The tree nearby looks the same. It's more like November than May here in Co. Down.
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Message 9
Posted by realfood (U13916672) on Wednesday, 25th May 2011
Have inspected the damage at my plot in Glasgow. Rhubarb stems nearly all broken, blackcurrants, red currants, gooseberries, rasps have all lost branches as well as having 30% of their leaves ripped off. Onions leaves snapped through, cloches ripped, but it could be worse!! At least sweetcorn and curcurbits are still under cover as it is still too cold to plant out here.
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Message 10
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Wednesday, 25th May 2011
It is the lack of rain in the south and the south west which is becoming a problem; only about an inch here near B'mouth since the beginning of March.
The hay has been cut but it does not look very high in moisture content to me.
I am lucky enough to have a small river to get my garden water from, and the fruit is swelling ok, plenty of time for apples but not the cherries.
This year's raspberry stock is doing well even so. -
Message 11
Posted by martingodliman (U13761957) on Friday, 27th May 2011
I dunno a very warm April a cool and very windy May and dry and when the rain does come it's almost too hard...my poor old veg plants.
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Message 12
Posted by Mushie (U14693588) on Saturday, 28th May 2011
May have lost a 11 year old Bramley tree as it is sitting at a peculiar angle but at least my wee Victoria plum tree has survived minus a few branches. Blackcurrant bush has lost a lot of branches and greenhouse glass broken but I bet a lot worse folk than me
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Message 13
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Sunday, 29th May 2011
Some farmers are going to be hard hit in Dorset after planting Maize in the spring and it is now only a couple of inches high. The thing about maize is that it is very resilient, and provided it does rain between now and august it won't matter too much, but not rain from early March to early June is not good.
100 acres ploughed, harrowed,seeded, fertilized costs quite a lot of money; if you then have no return from it, that is very unfortunate indeed, wouldn't you say?
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Message 14
Posted by koala_girl (U12702629) on Monday, 30th May 2011
I've no idea how it happened but I went out this morning to find that a lot of young cabbage plants had been blown out of their trays. Spent half an hour trying to find them all blown under piles of pots I had some radishes blown out of the ground the other day. I came home to find them laying on their sides just barely holding on with the ends of their roots in the ground. Luckily they were big enough to eat so I just picked them up and took them indoors.
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